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THE MONTICELLO NEWS
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TELEPHONE 34.
Friday, December 25, 1903,
Here's a happy Christmas to all !
Delinquents thrown in,
A persimmon farm i 3 a new ex
p-riment in Crawford Tounty.
It is stated upon the authority
of Senatar Depew that there are
100,000 millionaires in the United
Al
A 520,000 saddle will be exhibit
ed in Mexico's display at the
World's Fair. It is the property
of President Diwg, baving been
presented to him by Colonel Car
tina, of the Mexican army. i
The greatest suspension bridge }
in the world has recently been ‘
completed, and now connects the
cities of New York and Brooklyn,
It cost §20,000,000 and was more
than seven years in being built, ‘
All of the grading and ncarlyl
all of the track construction for
the 12 miles of Intramural railway
at the World's Fair is finished. On
the day of the opening, April 30,
visitors may reach any part of the
grounds via the Int:amural,
[t is estimated that the severe
blizzard which prevails in the
northwest, without snow to pro
tect the young crop, will cut the
yield about oneand a half n:illion
bushels; and if so, flour next year
will be higher than it is even now, ‘
Hon, Thomas Watson claims
the honor of being the first one to
secure an appropriation from Con. |
gress for the establishment of thc{
present Rural Free Delivery of
mail, and offers §1 000 to any one ‘
who will prove that he was not
the author of the bill. 1
The Milledgeville News makes
the following timely suggcstion:l
In order to promcte good roads
throughout the country, Congress
should duplicate whatever a
mounts all counties in the United
States invests in permanent’ road
improvements so that each county
will get twice the work on itsi
roads that the local tax-payers are
able to pay. Itwould take an e
normous sum to carry out our
proposition, but we are throwing
away ‘‘enormous sums' every
year on either Jim Crow islands
and countries and might as well }
help ourselves as others, 1‘
Maurice Proctor, of} Mineral.f
Point, Wis., is said to receive the
smallest check drawn by the Na.
tional governmeut, The slip of
paper with the seal of Uncle Sam
on it calls for one cent, and is paid
annually, It ig in remuneration
in full for carrying the mails from
Mineral Point to Dodgeville.
About twelve months ago, when
the bids were made for the con.
tract, there was a deal of rivalry
among a dozen or more of those
who wished to serve. the govern.
ment in this capacity, and Proctor
who is wealthy and goes not need
the money, offered in due form,
faithfully and promptly to per.
form the task for a penny a year.
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SHAW'S LIVERY STABLE,
Hack meets both trains, New
rigs and good horses. Stable lo
cated opposite Planters’ Ware.
To PATENT Bood ldes:
may be secared by
ouraid. Address,
THE PATENT RECORD,
ol )‘lnlflflm. M
The Past Can’t Be Undone;
| Let’s Improve the Future.
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! BY M. B. DENNIS, EATONTON, GA.
l. Your child rapidly approaches
'the age when the state laws will
{b:.r him from the public schools.
' Does this ever occur to you, and
| does the thought ever produce any
| mental worry, as you day after
!duy madly rush after the materi
[ul, tangible things of this life?
'With his irregular attendance,
‘and with the general meagre fa
cilities of the average school, (I
%mn talking to parents who are
hndifl'erem), the chances, Dby
zlargc odds, are against him. If
| under these unsatisfactory condi
[tions he fails to ger, before he
'reaches his cighteenth year, wimnt
| would be possible under a better
system; what are you guing to do
about 1t? Will it be convement, or
jare you able, to send him to other
{schools where his education can
'bc completed? If not what are
[ you going to do?
l Your child is ncarly grown, and
yet his mental equipment for life
:tis limited,—only a half common
|school education, perhaps, if he
lshm;ld complete the present limit
e and circumseribed public school
gcuul'.sc. No habits ot study form
led. No capacity for concentrated,
systematic thought developed. No
love of good readieg implanted.-
No definite fixed plan decided on
|for the future. Sad story this;
!but whatare you going to do
!übuut it? |
Will you push him out into the
cold, caleulating world with no
| better equipment for life’s work
'th:m this? T'his, more than likely,
is what you will do, but how fear
ful! Tremendously fearful! Fear
ful from your standpoint ot re
sponsibility. Feartul trom the
boy's standpoint of incapacity.
Fearful from the standpoint of so
ciety already overburdened with
such a dead weight of mental
weakness and moral stupidity.
In your carelessness and mdiff
erence touching the voy's early
schooling, you have commitied
against him a sin, black, and very
likcly, unpardonable ;—certainly
irreparable. You could have done
better; but you have allowed bus
iness, an unholy desire to get gain
and other sordid things to creep
in between youand your heaven
born duty to the child; your op
portunity has flown, and the sin‘
lstzmds recorded against you, Not
only so, you have gone irom bad
!m worse, by thrusting upon soci
'cty a mental cripple for life For!
this condition of affairs you alone
are responsible. Society may nev
er, in so many words, face yuu!
with the accusation, but all the
same, you have imposed upon so-‘
‘ciety a tremendous burden tor
‘which ihere is no excuse but your
!amazing indifference and close
fisted selfishness, |
| And your sin doesnot stop here,
'[f it did, it might pass wlth asigh.
!But. alas! like the spreading
shadow of some huge object as
it casts its black funnel shade a
%cruss the infinitude of space, it in.
|creases in blackne's and gathers
.! in its extension a constantly widen
ling area. So the influence of
!)'oxlr inexplicable carelessness and
'stolid indifference, once placed in
?mution, travels on and on, in
{creasing in velocity, in magni.
‘tudc. in scope until it shail break
'on the shores of eternity.
| Repair what you have done?
!You cannot. But you can avoid
the same mistakesin the future,
l:md helpisave your descendants
{ from alike calamity. You can
{do this, when the opportunity
!comes, by voting for the constitu
| tional change contemplated in the
| MeMichael bill passed by the last
ilegislature, under which any mi
ilitia or school district, or any
county as a whole, may vote to
tax itself locally for better schools
and longer terms. Will vou do
iizz Your boy wants you to do it;
{his need demand you to do it;
ihnw, oh! howcan you do other.
| wise?
|
! ik :
| Hungary will make an extensive
rexhibit of wines at the World's
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THE MONTICELLO NEWS.
'The South and the
| ~ Panama Canal,
: (By R. F. Powel, in Eatonton Me;mger.)
| ki
- Itisalmost impessible to esti
'mate the advantages that will
come to our Southern States
!through the great canal soon to be
| commenced through the Isthmus
lof Panama. Take a ruler, and
i place one end of it on the South
lern part of Australia, and the
gother end on London, England,
{and draw a line along the ruler,
ixmd that line will pass exactly over
| the proposed canal route, showing
lthat this route will be the shortest
from Europe to the great East,
‘embracing not only Australia, but
!()hiuu, Japan and the( Phillipine
;‘lblzmds. Consequently the great
volume of trade just begun, you
might say, from Europe to the O
]riem. will pass through this cangl,
and thousands of ships will touch
at our Scuthern ports for water,
fuel and trade yearly, and besides
it will give us the Inside track, the
cheapest freight, of any other civ
ilized country in the world to the
Ilast. That great Japanese states
man, Ite, says that in a few years
after the completion of this canal
Japan alone will want 20,000,000
bales of our cotton. Perhaps that
may be an overestimate, but there
| is no doubt that the cotton world
! will want more cotton than we can
make of our kind of cotton, that
is, of cotton that will mix with
wool, silk and linen; and we make
the only cotton that can be used
in that way. The fact is we have
almost touched our highest limit
in the production of cotton, on ac
count of the lack of labor. We
‘miay increase our uantity of labor
‘but the quality is steadily on a de
cline, and when our oid negroes
die out, or become too oid for
profitable labor, and the new ne
gro has to take their places entire
ly, it is easy to see that there will
‘besgreat diminution in the quanti
}ty of cotton, besides the strain on
‘the land on account of its constant
cultivation in cotton will cut down
the supply greatly. ‘
~ The price of cotton went down
steadily from 4oc. a pound in 1865
to s¢. in 1808, 1899 and 1900 be
cause the supply exceeded the de
mand. The demand for cotton
;has increased naturally, that is
on account of increase in porula
tion. and on account of the open
ing up of the great Eastern trade,
until the price has again reached
12%c¢, There are five hundred
millions of new people to clothe.
'ang\ anyone can see that the de
mand for cotton goods, the cheup-
Icst of all goods, will so increase as
to bring the price to at least 13¢.
a pound. Of course the advanced
price of cotton goods will tend to
cut down the demand to some ex
tent, but as long as cotton goods
are cheaper than any other goods,
the demand will steadily increase
and I expect if I live a few years
longer to see raw cotton worth 25
centsin the city of Eatonton, and
I never expect to see cotton below
9 cents again. And further, lands
were worth only 5 to 6 dollars an
acre with cotton at 5 cents a
pound, and it requires very little
reasoning or calculation to show
that with cotton at 25 cents the
same lands will be worth at least
$25 an acre, consequently the far
mers of the Southern States of
America are bound to become the
richest agricultural people in the
world,
A Costly Mistake.
Blunders are sometimes very
cxpensive. Ocecassionally life
itself is the price of a mistake,
but you'll never be wrong il you
take Dr. King's New Life Pills
for Dyspepsia, Dizziness, Head
ache, Liver or Bowel troubles.
They are gentle yet thorough.
25¢, at C. D. Jordan’s Drug
Store,
J. F. WEBB,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office Benton Building, Room 1,
recently vacated by Col. Johnson.
Phone No. 3.
To the Voters of Jasper County.
I hereby announce myself as a
eandidate for Solicitor of the
County Court of Jasper County.
Eln the event I am elected I wiil
iperform the duties of the office to
the best of my ability,
| Doyle Campbell.
i To the Voters of Jasper County.
I take this opportunity of re
' spectfully announcing my candi
tdacy for the office of County
| Solicitor of this county. Election
about Januvary 3rd, 1904.
! Respectfully,
] B. F. Leverette.
|
!To the Voters of Jasper County.
% I hereby announce myself a
| candidate for the office of Judge
iuf the county court of Jasper
Icoumy and respectfully solicit the
| support of the citizens of Jasper
;county. If elected I will endeav-
Eor, as I have in the past, to per
form the duties of county Judge
| without fear, favor or affection,
!rewurd or the hope thereof.
| Sam T. Reid.
‘To the Voters of Jasper County.
I hereby announce myself a
‘candidate for the office of Judge of
the County Court of Jasper Coun
ty. Ifelected, I promise to per
form the duties of this responsible
office to the best of my skill and
knowledge, without fear, favor or
affection,
1 have neither the time nor the
inclination to make a house to
house canvass of the county, but
submit my candidacy to the voters
of the county, and will appreciate
the vote of every man who thinks
[ am capable of filling the office.
My candidacy is subject to the
Democratic primary to be held on
December 3oth 1903.
Respectfully, ‘
A. S. Thurman.
City Tax Notice. ‘
The city tax books for advalo
rum and school taxes are now
open for the payment of same.
These books will close December
the 20th. Come forward now and
settle. '
BC Beaten O C,
Nov. 20, At Bank of Monticello.
Fight will Be Bitter.
Those who will persist in clos
ing their ears aguainst the conti
nual recommendation of Dr.
King's New Discovery for Con
sumption, will have a long and
bitter fight with their troubles if
not ended earlier by fatal termin
ation. Read what T. R. Beall of
Beall, Miss. has to say: *‘Last fall
my wife had every symptom of
consumption. She took Dr.
King's New Discovery after every
thing else had failed. Improve
ment came at once and four bot
tles entirely cured her.” Guaran
teed by C. D. Jordan druggist.
Price soc, and §I.OO. Trial bot
tles free.
Ten Thousand Churches
In the United States have used
the Longman & Martinez Pure
Paints.
Every Church will be given a
liberal quantity whenever they
paint.
Don't pay $1.50 a gallon for
Linseed oil (worth 6o cents)
which you do when you buy thin
paint in a can with a paint label on
it.
8 and 6 make 14, therefore when
you wani fourteen gallons of
paint, but only eight gallons of
L. & M., and mix six gallons of
pure linseed oil with it
You need only four gallons of
L. & M. Paint, and three gallons
of Oil mixed therewith to paint a
good sized house.
Houses painted with these
paints never grow shabby, even
after 18 years.
These celebrated paints are
sold by C. D. JORDAN,
Tax Collector’s Notice.
The books of the tax collector
will close on Dec. 19th, and all
taxes not paid by that date execu.
tion will b: issued at once. Please
take notice and govern yourself
accordingly.
J. 8. Malone, Tax Collector.
" A
ANNOUNCEMENT
4 A e
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In making this,‘my second announcement, allow me to thank
a generous public in aiding me to do business in the midst of the
livest and sharpest competition of any tewn in Middle Georgia
If close prices and fair dealings will continue to merit your pat
ronage, I shall always be found working to increase my business,
which so far has been pleasant and reasonably prefitable. My
working force is now more experienced, and my stock of gocds
more varied and compiete and better equipped every way to treat
my patrons more liberally.
My stock of shoes is well nigh complete, and will be sold at rea
sonably low prices. My stock of Dry Goods comprises the lead=
ing Staples, and will be sold on a basis of & cents for Cotton, as I
bought them arly on this basis.
MEN’S READY--MADE--TO--WEAR GOODS.
Have them is stacks, and all bought before the recent sharp ad
vance, and am in position to save you money. Comein and look,
will do you no harm, and we take pleasure in showing you any=
thing we carry. Yours, anxious for business.
oIS cmueeenn
ket
D. B. BENTON.
| WANTED Every man, woman and
| 9 child in the South to open
| s 3 Savings Account with this
; ety company.
| Deposits by mail may be made with
| as much care and safety as at home.
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: Deposits of §I.OO and upward received and 3 per cent
~ interest compounded quarterly is allowed. When an ac
: count reaches $3.00, a handsome home saving bank will
be loaned the depositor.
: Write for fuli information and blanks to open an account.
- Savannah Trust Company.
' Capital stock $5000,000. Undivided profits $99.60%. 46.
| P »5 P $99.09
' Savannah Trust Building, Savannah, Georgia.
. WM. W. MACKALL, GEO. J. BALDWIN, WM. V. Davis,
: 4 President. Vice-P'resident. Sec’'y and Treas.
' IO RO o A s i IO 7. T O T s ..
' WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY '
) AND SILVERWARE
| AT
’ S
: J. E. HECHT’S
: JEWELRY STORE.
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: My line is complete in the latest styles and lowest
) prices. Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, or anything in my
: line. é
. You are cordially invited to visit my store when in
-the city and get my prices.
I can furnish yon with anything from a diamond to
" the cheapest piece of Jewelry.
r
; Visiting New York and other leading markets
I keep in touch with the latest styles and my
; many customers can rest assured that my most
: complete line is up-to-date.
. Yours to serve,
' J. E. HECHT, JEWELER.
!- a2De L S G R s . sk
" “ALWAYS READY FOR USE”
NEVER REQUIRES GRINDING,
WILL SHAVE FOR YEARS WITWOUT HONING.
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~——ALRIGHT FOR—
Excelsior and Improved New
Enterprise Stoves, no better
made.
Syracuse and Oliver Chill Plows.
SPORTING GOODS OF ALL KINDS--GUNS AND ,\MML"NIIT!‘O;:
i have a complete Stock of Hardware which must be sold.
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